On Monday 06 December 2010 15:19:18 Łukasz Garczewski wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Graham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What is the best method with respect to deleting a user. > > > > > > Mediawiki 1.16.0 > > PHP 5.1.6(apache2handler) > > MySQL 5.0.77 > > Don't. > > MediaWiki relies on having all users present, all the time. > > You can rename a user, block them infinately or reset their password > and e-mail if you don't wish them to be able to log in at all. > > But do not delete. :) > > Plus, there are licensing concerns around edit attirbution, too.
We have large numbers of registered users who have never contributed anything at all, so I suspect that some of them could be bots. I had considered trying to identify all who have been registered for more than a year without contributing, and removing those accounts. I don't see the advantage to either the wiki or the user in a non-contributing registration. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
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